API Evangelist Areas
Browse the APIs.io network by subject. Each area is a curated collection of the specifications, tools, and documentation behind a topic — and links out to the providers on the network working in it.
41 areas · sourced from the API Evangelist topic repos
Cloud
Cloud is a topic profile in the API Evangelist Network covering the major public cloud platforms and their APIs. The topic indexes the hyperscalers (Amazon Web…
High Tech
High Tech indexes the APIs, data services, and reference artifacts that power the electronics, semiconductor, hardware, and IoT industries. The landscape cover…
Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage is a topic profile in the API Evangelist Network covering the major cloud and S3-compatible object, file, and block storage APIs. The topic index…
Cybersecurity Standards
Cybersecurity Standards captures the public, machine-readable, and reference frameworks that establish best practices for protecting information systems, netwo…
Linux/Unix System
A topic catalog of system-level APIs and interfaces available across Linux/Unix-like operating systems. Includes kernel system calls, POSIX standards, inter-pr…
Configuration Language
Configuration languages are formats and DSLs used to express the desired state of software systems, infrastructure, applications, and APIs. Configuration langu…
Energy and Utilities
Energy and Utilities is a topic profile in the API Evangelist Network cataloging the API surfaces that move data across the modern electricity, gas, and water…
Communication Protocols
Communication protocols are systems of rules that allow two or more entities in a networked system to exchange information. Modern API platforms rely on layere…
Linux Server
Linux Server is a topic catalog covering management, administration, and monitoring interfaces used to operate Linux servers in production. It organizes refere…
Cloud Storage and Data Acquisition
Cloud Storage and Data Acquisition is a topic profile in the API Evangelist Network covering APIs and tooling for ingesting, moving, and persisting bulk and st…
Data Commons
Data Commons is an open knowledge graph initiative led by Google that aggregates and harmonizes the world's public data into a single graph, making global stat…
C#
C# is a modern, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of the .NET platform. It is used for building Windows applications, web ser…
Consensus
Consensus is the distributed systems problem of getting a set of unreliable processes to agree on a value or sequence of values. Consensus algorithms power sta…
Context Engineering
Context engineering is the practice of curating the information that large language models receive at inference time so that the model can perform a task relia…
Convention Over Configuration
Convention over Configuration (CoC) is a software design principle that prefers sensible defaults and standard patterns over explicit, repetitive configuration…
Schema Design
Schema Design is the practice of defining the structure, constraints, and semantics of data models used in APIs, databases, and data exchange formats. It encom…
Command Line Interface
Command Line Interface (CLI) is a text-based way of interacting with software by typing commands at a prompt. Modern CLI design draws on decades of UNIX conven…
Schema Free
Schema Free (schemaless) databases and APIs allow data to be stored and retrieved without a predefined fixed schema. Rather than enforcing structure at the dat…
Schema Evolution
Schema Evolution is the practice of managing changes to data schemas over time while preserving compatibility between producers and consumers. It covers backwa…
Boycott Israeli Consumer Goods Dataset
The Boycott Israeli Consumer Goods Dataset, maintained by TechForPalestine, is a version-controlled, golden-source repository collating consumer boycott and al…
Chat
Topic-level profile capturing the Chat API category in the API Evangelist network. This profile defines a reference vocabulary and a generic OpenAPI shape for…
Basel Compliance
Basel Compliance covers the regulatory frameworks and technical standards issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) at the Bank for Internati…
CQRS
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural pattern that separates read and write operations for a data store into distinct models. Com…
Circuit Breaker
The Circuit Breaker is a stability pattern for distributed systems and API architectures that prevents cascading failure when a downstream service degrades. A…
Code First
Code-first is an API design and software development approach where the application's source code is the primary source of truth and the API contract (OpenAPI…
Customs Advisory Services
Customs advisory services help importers, exporters, and trade professionals navigate complex customs regulations, tariff classifications, valuation rulings, c…
Customs Brokerage
Customs brokerage is the licensed practice of clearing imported and exported goods through customs authorities on behalf of importers, exporters, and freight f…
Customs Computer System
A customs computer system is the national IT platform that customs authorities operate to manage the import and export of goods, collect duties and taxes, enfo…
Customs Forms
Customs forms are the standardized declarations and supporting documents that importers, exporters, and carriers must complete to move goods across internation…
Customs Procedures
Customs procedures are the regulated processes that govern how goods are entered into, transited through, and exported from a customs territory. The major proc…
Data Flow Diagrams
Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) are graphical models that depict how data moves through a system across processes, data stores, external entities, and flows. The tec…
Data Format
Data Format covers the syntactic conventions used to represent, exchange, and persist information. The landscape spans text formats (JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, TOML…
Data Modeling
Data Modeling is the discipline of designing structured representations of data to organize information, define relationships, and govern how data is stored, a…
Data Models
Data Models are structured representations of entities, attributes, and relationships that define how data is stored, accessed, and exchanged. The landscape sp…
Data Privacy Standards
Data Privacy Standards is the landscape of laws, regulations, frameworks, and technical standards that govern the collection, processing, sharing, and protecti…
Data Quality Standards
Data Quality Standards is the landscape of frameworks, standards, and tools used to define and measure the accuracy, completeness, consistency, validity, uniqu…
Data Warehouse Schemas
Data Warehouse Schemas is the landscape of analytical schema patterns used to organize fact and dimension data for business intelligence and reporting. It span…
Database Normalization
Database Normalization is the formal process of structuring relational schemas to reduce redundancy and avoid update, insert, and delete anomalies. It is gover…
Database Schema Design
Database Schema Design is the practice of defining the tables, columns, data types, constraints, indexes, and relationships that make up a database. It applies…
Defense in Depth
Defense in Depth is a layered cybersecurity strategy that uses multiple, overlapping security controls so that if one control fails, others continue to protect…
Disclosure Requirements
Disclosure Requirements are the regulatory and legal obligations for organizations to reveal specific information to stakeholders, regulators, and the public.…
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